11:07 AM,
Feb. 25, 2014

BJ's Wholesale Club, which includes sites in Roxbury and Riverdale, has donated 15 million pounds of food to food banks since 2011.

Written by

Chris Jordan
| @ChrisFHJordan

The Massachusetts-based BJ's Wholesale Club, which includes sites in Roxbury and Riverdale, recently announced that they've donated 15 million pounds of food to food banks since beginning their Feeding Communities program in November of 2011.

The total equates to 12 million meals, according to a BJ's press release.

"When BJ's Wholesale Club first began exploring what else we could do to better support the communities in which we have clubs, helping to feed the hungry seemed to be a natural fit given that BJ's is a destination for the weekly food shop," said Jessica Newman, BJ's assistant ...